Saturday Morning

Oops, what a way to start an off the road adventure! BTW, Pete and Bob did have a great time four wheeling up around the Oatman area!

Faith...taking a little rest.

Allan just couldn't stand that dirty window!

Mona attacking one of the bathrooms!

Renee lov'n on Hucker Dog!

And Neil just never stopped working!

Thursday

Test driving new rock band saw. Got a good deal on it at Avi!

Bill checking out a booth at Avi.

Rock, and rocks!

Pete and Bill discussing who knows what?

Sharon, sharing Africa pictures! Great and thanks!

Delivery of the new refridgerator on Tuesday.

Wednesday

:( Bill and Sharon went on down the road.

Just have to share!

Great quote by a great man:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005

Some more pictures - Wednesday

Sharon sent me these photos from the last three days! Thanks Sharon! Yesterday found us waiting around here most the day for a repairman! He never did show! We messed around in the Rock Shop and Sharon was doing windows on some material we picked up on Monday! We then went over to Clouds Jamboree and then to dinner at Moon Shadow. Oh, the new refrigerator was delivered at nine yesterday morning. YES, getting closer to the kitchen remodel.

Sally and Sharon

Sally, Bill and Pete

Sally and Bill

Some one has a birthday today!

Monday - A little rock hunting

A nice barrel cactus...

Does Pete know what he is looking at?

Absorbed in what they are doing!

Bill, Pete and Sharon discussing the "rock Dolly"

No, Pete didn't hold Sharon by her feet to get a better look.

WHAT is it? Sally had to get in on the action too!

There is something down there, I know there is!

Yes Bill and Pete have ALL the problems solved!

Yes, Bill and Sharon had fun!

Yes, it's heavy!

Monday

Bill and Sharon got here yesterday afternoon...they treated us to dinner last night across the river. Thanks guys!

Hey, just to let you know, my computer is in the process of crashing so I might not be able to update... :(

Video on wildlife in Wyoming

We are expecting great company today.

Also I got this link from Pinedaleonline...enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/user/EVERGREENwY

Saturday Evening

Go to the rock club blog (sidebar) to see today's action!

Saturday Morning

Getting ready to go on a rock trip...more, with pictures later.

News Flash in today's Green River Star

New store coming to GR
By KATHY GILBERT Editor
Published: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:06 PM MST

Green River will have a second grocery store by November, if everything goes according to plan.

Obo’s Deli and Market is a popular place in Pinedale and Marbleton, and the developer hopes to be in Green River by next fall.

Mayor Hank Castillon met with Chopper Grassell on Monday to work on the plans for the new market. The store will include an inventory of groceries as well as a delicatessen and specialty meat department. The market will also carry organic foods. It will be larger than the Marbleton store, filling a 6,000 to 8,000 square-foot building.

“Mr. Grassell is looking at several different locations and working on details of the store,” according to Michelle Hostetler, director of SWEDA.

She added that he wants the store to be easily accessible to people in Green River as well as people from Rock Springs and those traveling through the area.

Hostetler said everyone at SWEDA and in the city is “so excited about this project.”

Castillon said people speak to him nearly every day about the need for another grocery store.

“I’m sure this new market will meet and exceed customers’ expectations for both product and price, It will be a great boost to our economy and a welcome addition to Green River,” Castillon said.

Wednesday

Pete is off on a motorcycle ride today...I'm the domestic diva of the day!

Tuesday

And there are winches and there are wenches! Still laughing! - -
See Lynn's Blog for further explanation to this! And my blog Sunday night!

Then I get an email that says:

"There was a wench named Marie

who's truck bogged down in the sea

a winch truck was called

and all were appalled

that the wenches winch truck was not free"

Here's what Lynn wrote me this morning: "Sally, I just keep laughing…. Things to pull things with are winches. Wenches are women - well sort of like harlots. So I’m imagining a jeep caravan of …. Wenches."

I was laughing so hard I could not answer her email...picked up the phone and we both laughed together!

Two, oops four more...this may be coming all day!!!

Wild Bee honey comb

Ready to roll, Alamo Road

This actually shows just how TIGHT these turns are! Corinnes Tracker is eight inches longer than mine, I think about the same as the jeeps with the "wenches" later corrected to winches. Tight Squeeze!

Pix from yesterday

Pete Sally and Corinne

Most the group...uhm Marge is behind Dennis in every picture!

If you stay far enough back, you don't eat quite as much dust!

The holes are coyote condos...that's what Corinne was telling Dennis!

I know some seem repetitious, but we covered a lot of territory and between Pete and me I think we have two or three hundred pictures!

Sunday evening

Went on one of the best outings I've ever been on, today. Pictures and story will follow. Right now I'm tired and have to clean up around here...

Thanks Denny and Marge for an awesome day!

Friday

Yesterday found us going to Home Depot and Lowe's to get supplies to start the next remodel.

Pete wanted to ride to Havasu for lunch, but I'm just not quite ready for even a short motorcycle trip yet. I kinda crunched my hip a couple of days ago (trying to get on my motorcycle), so I want to wait just a little longer.

Lynn Thomas posted a great panorama shot she took of Fremont Lake. Look on her blog (my sidebar).

Just got an email from Bill and Sharon...they are coming down next week. That will be fun!

Incredible survival story on the news right now

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By Edith Honan and Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A US Airways jet with about 150 people on board came down into the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday and officials said everyone was rescued.
Rescued passengers said they believed everyone had survived the crash, which left the Airbus A320 intact and floating in the river.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating reports that the plane hit a flock of birds after taking off from New York's LaGuardia airport and fell into the river on a freezing winter day.
An FAA spokeswoman said: "We've confirmed everyone got off."
A passenger told Reuters there was what sounded like an explosion a few minutes after takeoff.
"The engine blew. There was fire everywhere and it smelled like gas," Jeff Kolodjay, from Norwalk, Connecticut, told Reuters on a midtown Manhattan quay. "People were bleeding all over. We hit the water pretty hard. It was scary."
Another rescued passenger, Alberto Panero, told CNN, "I'm pretty sure everyone got off ... It's just incredible that everyone's alive."
As many as eight ferries and local water taxi services rushed to rescue passengers, some of whom lined up on the half-submerged plane's wings, some wearing yellow life vests, before police boats arrived.
"I saw the plane coming in very low but under control, it splashed down in the water. Once it cleared it was still floating on its belly," said Thomson Reuters employee Alex Whittaker who was in a 22nd floor meeting room at the company's Times Square building.
"The doors opened and we could see life rafts and we could just about see a few people climbing out onto the water," he said.
Flight 1549 was headed for Charlotte, North Carolina.
US Airways said in a statement it was investigating the incident. The FAA said the plane was an Airbus A320 with 148 passengers and four or five crew.
(Writing by Mark Egan, reporting by Claudia Parsons and Brendan McDermid; Editing by David Storey)

Thursday

No pictures to post today and I'm not inventive enough to go find one from another time/another place!

Yesterday we went over to Avi and had buffet with the Reed's and Mona. We then walked through the Convention Part of the Jewelry Rock show. Talked to the guy from Delta whose family owns the Beryllium mine.

I just saw Pete go by outside with a tree (not a small one) in the bucket in the tractor.

A few pix!

This is what the back area looks like now. Pete just won't let me clutter the place up!!! Even with rocks!

Monday

The rock group went out down past McCracken Mine and Alamo Lake on a long field trip Saturday. I understand they had a great time. Pete and I opted to go on a Photo field trip Saturday up off of Silver Creek. Had a great time and we were home early. We are going down toward Alamo with Pete’s brother next Sunday on a pre jeep run mainly to see some slot canyons. I do believe Corinne is going.

Pete has cleaned up all my rocks out back. Took old fence rails, enclosed the car/horse port. (where he parks the tractor). Then built a deck, turned the rock trailer around and it’s so nice to work out there., I cut some rocks yesterday. Also it will take me three lifetimes to sort out the piles of rock he dumped!

I will post pictures soon.

I’m walking a lot better…this has been a slow process. (smile)

A Photo Trip today

This could be Rozi's sister and just as mellow! Dave, her owner said she's for sale...the first million takes her home! More about today later.

Cool Site today from Kim Komando

Copied directly from Kim Komando: Fun for weather geeks

"The other day, I received an e-mail from Patrick, a loyal Kim's Club member. Patrick is a weather buff and wanted to suggest a Cool Site. Now, computer geeks are often criticized for using computer-ese. That's nothing compared to the jargon Patrick was using.

He was throwing around terms like "wind chill." I have no idea what that is. How could wind possibly be cold? Here in Phoenix, wind feels as hot as the sun's surface.

But I plodded on through his e-mail. Then, I saw a term that I could understand: "heat index." I definitely know what that is!
So, I headed over to the site Patrick suggested. It features a slew of tools to help you better understand the weather.

You can convert between different temperature scales. Or, find the wind chill, heat index and dew point. And that's just for starters!
My favorite tool is the Cricket Chirp Converter. It will tell you the temperature based on the number of cricket chirps. What fun!"

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/epz/wxcalc/wxcalc.shtml

Sent from a friend - funny!

Skier Suffers Exposure
Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap

JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair's botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images on page four and five were taken by a local photographer who happened upon the rescue scene. In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being "suspended for approximately seven minutes." The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that "the man was caught on the chair." (5 pages)

Tuesday

It is pretty much ditto from yesterday around here!

Tuesday

For all you enquiring minds; there is not a darn thing to report! I've got a little head cold and I'm not sure what Pete has been doing. Just full of information down here!

Monday

And they are lost without the whole family there!

A dear friend sent me this yesterday...

In Case You Thought You Had A Bad Day....

1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, they were both eaten by a killer whale.

2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an ax handle, leaving her mentally retarded.

3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight HOURS short of the 400 day record; his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
There, now! Your day's not so bad after all, is it?

I REALLY glad I'm in AZ! 42 here!

As Gina says, snagged off Pinedaleonline!

Oops, almost forgot!

Sent from Chopper's cell phone...on the way to White Pine yesterday - some deep snow, uh Megan!

New Years Day at Ferguson's

Yesterday Pete and I went to Ferguson's for a scrumptious New Years Day dinner. Thanks Ann and Bob!

Bob, Bob and Pete

Sally and Ann

Linda and Ann

Happy New Year from Arizona!